Ministry of Agriculture wants to feed the hungry surplus

The global economy rules igry19-01-2009 The Ministry of Agriculture wants to feed the hungry surplus Skrynnik criticized protectionist measures in the field of agriculture. According to him, national self-interest of some countries contributes to the development of hunger in poor countries. However, a number of experts believe that the protective measures of the state farmers are needed. Minister of Agriculture of Russia Alexey Gordeev, the second international conference of agriculture ministers in the framework of the exhibition "Green Week" in Berlin, criticized the protectionist measures of States. He said that the national economic self-interest of some countries prevents the essential task - overcoming hunger in the world. "Now we see that the financial crisis when making certain decisions of several governments present national economic egoism" - quoted him as saying RIA Novosti. "If we say that the number of hungry people in the world is not shrinking, and in some countries - the overproduction of food, then, first of all, you should answer the question, as well as, indeed, poor, starving country can buy this food, if their population lives on one dollar a day ", - emphasized A. Gordeev. In this sense, he added Gordeev, we must get rid of the myths and understand that in the U.S., as well as in Russia, there are a lot of excess grain, which can be used to combat hunger.